Moonlight is a collaboration between 4 students from the Kingston School of Art who were tasked with responding to a live brief for one of Winch Design’s interior concepts. The yacht concept was designed for the Sustainable Seas Foundation and the brief was to a designed artefact with a strong storyline and sustainable emphasis to anchor the messages already present in the given interior concept.
My role was as the graphic designer and researcher for sustainable materials and concept development where, alongside my team, I developed a set of crescent tables inspired by the sea goddess Iemanja from recycled glass, aluminium and a material made from upcycled shellfish waste called SeaStone.
Focus Areas: Environmental Sustainability, Product and Furniture Design, Interior Design, Materials
The sustainable attributes of the material choices dictated aspects of the final design choices and were equally as important as preserving the goddess storyline of our designs. Key considerations were made using the Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standards prioritising durability and reuse.
Each element was designed for ease of deconstruction so that the materials are able to be reused or recycled rather than discarded. The aluminium parts would be cast as separate pieces and once the table top is cast, holes would be drilled and threaded for the connection of the pins to hold the glass with the SeaStone embedded to the smaller table.
The shape of the main table leg evokes the imagery of the goddess rising out of the sea and the crescent moon is one of her symbols also referencing the brief’s theme of moonlight. The table functions as a coffee table in the center of the main salon in addition to serving as a display shelf for found objects such as seashells much like the altars traditionally made for the goddess.
Final image renders were done by team member Veronica Markham Neale
Collaboration between: Lindsay Rapp, Veronica Markham Neale, Yaolin Wang, and Yue Zhang with Winch Design
